‘All sounds, smells and forms, in my mind, kept transforming into light and light into colours, changing my blindness into a kaleidoscope.’ (Jacques Lusseyrand, Et la lumière fût)

What about touch?

In the museum blind visitors frequently do not dare to touch tactile devices designed for this purpose. Why? Because touching is an intimate act, and being watched discovering, groping, navigat-ing and carefully touching objects can be uncomfortable. So touching is impor-tant, of course, the hands cannot help but love what they have touched in full, but how do you go beyond touch? How can a blind person form a mental image of the work?

The approach is resolutely multi-sensory, with the idea of leaning towards the 6th sense of the blind and visually impaired and, for the sighted, to share this ‘vision’.

Does Secret du Monde (Secret of the World) provide an answer to this?

The approach is resolutely multi-sensory, with the idea of leaning towards the 6th sense of the blind and visually impaired and, for the sighted, to share this ‘vision’. It is therefore quite experimental, as well as collaborative, as was the whole project throughout its schedule. Artists, scientists, the sighted and non-sighted met around this project over the course of about two years, in an experience that was enriching for us all.